Creative Assignment 3

If you have seen the Disney movie Pocahontas or any other general movie about colonization you know that the “White Man” wants more land and the Native Americans think he is stupid because land is not something to be owned. In her paper “Native American Worldview Emerges” Mary Magoulick wrote that “Americans view land as an object of trade and utility” which she contrasts with the traditional Native American view that land isn’t a commodity to be owned. She writes that Native Americans have a much deeper respect for nature, land and the earth in general as it was here before you and will be here after you. This worldview seems to be more accurate than the American one in my opinion. Many people will be making payments from anywhere between fifteen and forty years to pay off their mortgage; then they will own their house and the land it is on. However when they die if they have no one to leave it to, the state gets it. Sometimes though it is left alone and begins to deteriorate. The construction materials used for a house come from nature anyway (wood from trees, metal is mined from the earth, bricks are made from clay, concrete comes from limestone) and when the house is left alone nature causes it to return back to its natural components. “For dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return” Genesis 3:15